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  1. Ya, I agree. Being sceptical, paranoid and listening too much to ‘what the probloggers said’ can sometimes become stumbling block. LiewCF warned me about many things but I die-die oso wanna try out and get my backside grilled to find out myself. But doing paid post is probably one of my best decision and rewarding risk I took. ALL probloggers said, ‘DON’T’ and I don’t care.

  2. I listened to you…

    Like you said, it’s good to keep an open mind but then the conclusion you have to derive it yourself. :-)

  3. There’s a lot to what you just said. I think the reason why we should take wanna-be gurus seriously (heck, I’m one, so the bias might be talking here) is that blogging is to a degree like conversation. Sometimes one can set down things authoritatively, but at other times, new thoughts are being tried out.

    On a deeper level, all the business advice that cultivates success can be said to be the same advice which ends in failure. No one looks for red tape or counter-productive behavior from employees or oneself. But all that stuff happens because people get burnt out, etc.

  4. The problem is finding a proper filter. There are thousands of legitimate ideas out there for improving your blog performance (and plenty of bad ideas) but it is easy to spend too much time tweaking your blog and not enough time writing. I know I have been guilty of that from time to time.

  5. As with anything, sometimes advice that seems absurd actually works, and advice that seems totally commonsense to many of us is new and approached skeptically by others.

  6. Just found your blog today. Really like it – keep up the good work.Domain info more important than you think :-) Domain information such as DNS, age of domain and even the expiration date are used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains.Why are google doing this? Simply to get all the factors they can to get an internal “trust score”.This “trust score” is used to eliminate “doorway” pages and spam in the search result.I’M not saying that it’s working perfectly – but they are doing a pretty good job.

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